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Nicknames Of Politicians Through Conceptual Metaphors In English

, 2021
The article focuses on the issue of conceptual metaphors in the English-language political discourse. The authors view the research novelty in considering nicknames of politicians as language representations of certain conceptual models.
Svetlana Matsevich
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SEMANTIC RETRIEVAL PATTERNS IN COGNITIVELY HEALTHY OLDER ADULTS

Innovation in aging, 2023
Word finding difficulties can be a normative change in aging. The purpose of this descriptive study is to establish metrics of word retrieval patterns in older adults using a semantic fluency task. Forty-five healthy aging, primary English speakers (mean
V. Phatak, Elizabeth Vlock, Yunju Im, J. Merickel, Erica L. Aflagah, D. Murman, Jun Ha Chang, Matthew Rizzo   +7 more
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“The functional fallacy: on the supposed dangers of name repetition” [PDF]

, 2012
Whenever the theme of personal naming comes up, both in academic debate and in public opinion, we encounter a tendency to take for granted that there is some sort of collective interest in the clear and unambiguous individuation of persons through ...
Pina-Cabral, Joao
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Language and war in Ukraine: Unofficial names in the socio-group “Ukrainian military” as a marker of interpersonal communication

Onoma, 2022
: This article focuses on an essential component of the military slang of soldiers and commanders during the Russian – Ukrainian war of 2014 – 2022, in particular their unofficial names.
Halyna Matsyuk
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Larger Than Life: Titanic And Her Name Heritage

Names, 2006
Ranked as one of the worst maritime disasters of all time, the well-known story of the tragic maiden voyage of R.M.S. Titanic has been thoroughly researched and retold periodically with renewed interest through means of popular culture and literature ...
J. Joseph Edgette
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CONSTITUIREA NUMELOR DE FAMILIE DE LA PRENUME MASCULINE

Studii și cercetări de onomastică și lexicologie, 2022
"The denominative formula first name + last name was made official only at the end of the 19th century. Previously, for the identification and individualization of people, the denomination with unique name was used, based on a baptismal name.
Viorica Răileanu
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Orality in the cultural area of Bosnia and Herzegovina [PDF]

CM. Communication and Media
Starting off from Ong's theory of orality and literacy (Ong, 1982/2012), the aim of this paper is to show that in social communication in the cultural area of Bosnia and Herzegovina, oral communication has been significantly preserved with the features ...
Ćurguz Jelena
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Results of Onomastics in Geolinguistics: Expedition Experience

Respectus Philologicus, 2012
This paper summarises the research material of the ongoing global grant project, “Modern Research of Geolinguistics in Lithuania: Optimisation of Network of Points and Interactive Spread of Dialectal Information.” The project aims to collect the most ...
Ilona Mickienė, Rita Baranauskienė
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Teachers nicknames: Micro research in onomastics [PDF]

Sinteze, 2012
This paper studies teacher's nicknames in the primary school Vuk Karadžić in Kruševac gathered through a survey for which the students were requested to state a teacher‟s nickname, its originator and motivations.
Kostić-Stamenović Karolina, Dragumilo-Stefanović Marija   +1 more
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Nadimački sustav u Imotskoj krajini na primjeru obiteljskih i osobnih nadimaka u Gornjim Vinjanima

, 2022
The research is based on 1129 anthroponyms collected in the area of Gornji Vinjani. Based on the example of the nickname system, we try to show the origin, motivation and intertwining o f the family (kinship), family and personal nicknames in Imotska ...
Lončar, Ivana
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